Senior Backend Engineer: Scale Critical Services with AI

SNAP, Inc.; Santa Monica (CA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Up to 28 weeks of parental leave and a

Return-to-work program

Adoption, surrogacy, infertility, and

Job summary

Snap Inc. is seeking engineers to design, implement, and operate our most critical services across identity, friend graph, and core persistence layers.

You will collaborate across teams to understand requirements, evaluate trade-offs, and deliver robust, scalable solutions with attention to testing, security, and production readiness. You will leverage AI tools and modern workflows to ship high-quality services while prioritizing availability, performance, and cost efficiency across a

Qualifications

• Experience with large-scale distributed systems and backend services.
• Proficiency in Java, C++, or Python.
• Experience operating highly available systems at scale.
• Strong security and performance awareness.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and operate scalable services.
• Collaborate across teams to understand requirements and trade-offs.
• Evaluate and test work to ensure high quality.
• Advocate for availability, scalability, and cost management.
• Use AI tools to accelerate development while auditing architecture and security.

Skills

NoSQL solutions

Memcache/Redis

Kubernetes

Google Cloud/AWS services

Java

C++

Python

AI tools for development

Backend services

Distributed systems

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related field

Master’s degree or PhD in a technical field (optional)

Tools

Kubernetes

Redis

Google Cloud Platform

AWS

Job description

Snap Inc. is seeking engineers to design, implement, and operate our most critical services across identity, friend graph, and core persistence layers.

You will collaborate across teams to understand requirements, evaluate trade-offs, and deliver robust, scalable solutions with attention to testing, security, and production readiness. You will leverage AI tools and modern workflows to ship high-quality services while prioritizing availability, performance, and cost efficiency across a